Beth Hartwell comes to the School of the Suncoast after many years of teaching in several Waldorf Schools. She took the Teacher Training at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California and taught in northern California for 12 years. She also taught at a small school in St Louis, Missouri and worked in the administration in a Wisconsin Waldorf school. Her family is in Oklahoma City but her son is living in Shanghai, China. The Florida environment is not unfamiliar since she spent 6 years in the US Virgin Islands. She is teaching 4th/5th grade.